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Old 19th March 2008, 04:00 AM   #1 (permalink)
shamguy4
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A little help with writing out some action

My character is running through a hallway, truning many corners, when he truns a corner and smacks into an old man...

but I'm not sure how to go about wording this...
At first i wrote:
As he ran around the corner he smacked right into something... he felt dazed and as he took a step back he noticed it wasnt something but rather someone.

But I felt there needed to be action so then I erased that and wrote:

He began to run and it was at his next corner when there was a big smack!
he felt dazed as he took a step back. It took him a second to realize he had bashed into someone, a man, and he too seemed to be shaken up.


which one is better? or is there a btter way to write this altogether? I just want there to be a feeling of Ouch! rather than ...ok he bumped into a man.... yay...
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